Peysuföt 19th Century The Peysuföt are black woollen clothes commonly worn by women in the 18-19th century. They usually consisted of a twill skirt and a jacket of fine knitted woollen yearn with a black tail cap. It is believed that this costume was invented when women, desiring simpler working clothes than the faldbúningur, started to use male articles of clothing. This includes both the tail-cap and the peysa which originally was a jacket with a single row of buttons, but evolved into this costume and eventually discarded with the buttons. | Sources: [x] [x] [x]
The Faldbúningur The Faldbúningur is an older type of costume worn by women since at least the 17th century and well into the 19th. In its most recognized form it incorporated a hat decorated with a curved sheet-like ornament protruding into the air and exists in two variants. One of which is the krókfaldur (the hat in the first image.) and the other is the spaðafaldur (hat in the last four images.). Previously a large hat decorated with gold-wire bands was worn with it, as well as ruff which is the reason for the faldbúningur’s wide collar, which was designed to support it. Later, around the start of the 18th century women started to wear the much simpler tail-cap with it.[Wikipedia] | Sources: [x] [x] [x]
